Education

Morality lessons too academic for students
25/04/2013 08:31
The President’s Office is conducting a survey on teaching ethics to general school students in 15 cities and provinces. “The time limit designed for morality lessons is too modest, while the curriculums are unpractical,” Nguyen Chi Thanh, Assistant to the Vice President...
The schools for the rich and the schools for the poor
24/04/2013 03:58
Thy, an office worker, lives in Go Vap district, which means that in principle, her daughter has to go to the Chi Lang Primary School in the district. However, Thy wants to bring the daughter to the Dinh Tien Hoang in district 1. She said her office is located in district 1, so it would be...
Students tear history books, threw them into school yard
10/04/2013 04:32
The clip recording the images of the school’s students tearing books has been posted on Internet and has attracted a lot of viewers. In the eyes of many educators and students, the behavior is “unacceptable.” A student with the nickname Zuan Duck commented on the...
US offers scholarships to disadvantaged students
09/04/2013 02:44
Under the programme, the selected junior and secondary and high school students from less developed districts of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hung Yen and Nghe An provinces will be sponsored to take after-school English classes at local English language centres for two years with a total of 360...
Vietnam’s educational technology produces many bad products
07/04/2013 04:24
The term “sitting in wrong classes” has become more popular recently, used to talk about the students who do not have the knowledge the students of certain grades need to have. The first students sitting in wrong classes were found in 2007. After that, a series of drastic...
Ministry makes strides to ease school-starter pressure
01/04/2013 03:16
Many parents are sending kids to private tutors before entering first grade so that they get good marks, said the ministry's Primary Education Department head Pham Ngoc Dinh at a press briefing on Monday. But it was not helpful to teach children how to read and write before entering...
Kindies hit by land shortage
01/04/2013 03:14
Two years ago, the chairman of the municipal People's Committee, Nguyen The Thao, asked relevant agencies to buy up land to build more kindergartens and speed up construction to improve the situation by 2015. Typically, the Thanh Nhan Kindergarten in Hai Ba Trung District opened last...